“According to the suit against Monterey Collision Frame and Auto Body, a technician of Chinese and Italian ancestry was subjected to repeated racial and sexual harassment while he worked at the shop, “including mimicking martial arts movements and mocking

“the copying issue seems small compared to other problems in the fashion world… designers for both low end and high end merchandise are accused on a daily basis for exploiting the lower class of countries within the global south. “

“And just in case you are wondering what’s Hispanic about all this, Bibi shares her secret for a perfect family gathering: setting up an indoors pic-nic while enjoying Oreo cookies with, what else?, café con leche. Ay, ay, ay!”

“On Tuesday, charges against Carwin Jones and Theo Shaw were reduced to aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy. That same reduction was made earlier for Mychal Bell, who was tried and found guilty and could be sentenced to 22½ years at a hearing

LOVE this. Here’s a nice game to play in the liberal whitosphere: initiate a discussion by identifying a racist construction, pattern, or dynamic and objecting to its propagation; then bust out your White Liberal Bingo card (via Blackamazon) and start che

“Judge J.P. Mauffray threw out a conspiracy conviction against Mychal Bell, granting a defense motion that Bell’s June trial was improperly held in adult court and should instead have been conducted as a juvenile proceeding.”

Wendi Muse is guest-blogging at Too Sense! Georgian GOP party official Dave Barbee gets bitten by the racist fairy: “We will be making the downtown Whiter with moving 200 whites in and moving 500 blacks out!” he wrote.

“It’s like the Chinese. They’re a different relationship to cats. And you and I would be really pissed if someone ate kitty.” Again, with the cat-eating jokes! On national television, no less. That’s racist! There’s a video clip of remarks over at TMZ.com

“This wasn’t a Yellow Face character but a spoof on a kooky Triad character gone mad where it was supposed to be funny because it was a pale looking white guy – it was the paleness and the whiteness that was funny – and again no mock Asian accent either

“If I were an economist, I’d study Barbie as a barometer of macroeconomic ups and downs. To see a developing nation disappear from Barbie’s rump is a reliable indicator that it is no longer “behind.” Take Japan, for example.”

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